Politico

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Project Description

Politico enables citizens give their mandate to politicians running for different government offices while building trust in the process through transparency.

Features

1. Users can sign up.
2. Users can login.
3. Admin (electoral body) can create political parties.
4. Admin (electoral body) can delete a political party.
5. Admin (electoral body) can create different political offices .
6. Users can vote for only one politician per political office .
7. Users can see the results of election.

Bonus features

1. User can reset password.
2. A politician can create a petition against a concluded political office election.

Getting started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• python 3.6
• pip3
• Postgres database

If you wish to clone the repo please satisfy the requirements in the requirements.txt

Installing

clone the repo to local machine

git clone https://github.com/ChegeBryan/politico.git

pip3 install virtualenv

Create a virtual environment and install requirements

• Navigate to the cloned repo directory and open terminal from there.
• run virtualenv venv to create virtual environment with the name venv
• activate the virtualenv by source venv/bin/activate
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install app requirements on your virtual environment

Starting the server (development enviroment)

while still at the terminal:

• set enviroment variables from your platform specific dotenv file source {your dotenv}
• set APP_SETTING variable export APP_SETTING=development
• Start the app by running python run

Running the tests

To run the application unit_tests

• run pytest at the app root directory
• run with coverage pytest --cov=app/api app/tests

Api endpoints (Persistent)

This are the currently available v2 endpoints. The data is written into a database.

• Open endpoints

HTTP Method	URL Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/v2/auth/signup	Create new user
POST	/api/v2/auth/signin	Sign in existing user
POST	/api/v2/auth/signout	Sign out logged in user

• Open to Admin only endpoints

HTTP Method	URL Endpoint	Description
POST	/api/v2/parties	Create a new party
POST	/api/v2/offices	Create a new office
PATCH	/api/v2/parties/<int:party_id>/name	Update a party name
DELETE	/api/v2/parties/<int:party_id>	Delete a party
POST	/api/v2/office/<int:_id>/register	Register office candidate

• Open to logged in user

HTTP Method	URL Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/v2/offices	Fetch offices records
GET	/api/v2/offices/<int:office_id>	Fetch a specific office
GET	/api/v2/parties	Fetch all parties created
GET	/api/v2/parties/<int:party_id>	Fetch specific party
GET	/api/v2/office/<int:office_id>/result	Fetch office results
POST	/api/v2/office/application	Apply for office
POST	/api/v2/votes	Cast a vote
POST	/api/v2/petitions	Create a petition

API hosting

API Documentation

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Contributing

Contributions will be highly appreciated. Make a pull request and lets build software together.

Changelog

see Changelog

Authors

Chege Bryan